Cover for milk-pails.



in the appended claims,

mm; STATES PATENT orrion.

JOHN It. BOSTWIOK,

OF CLIFTON SPRINGS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY J. BOS'IWIOK, OF CLIFTON SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

COVER FOR MILK-FAILS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March. 10, 1908.

Application filed October 9, 1907. Serial No. 396,616.

To all whom it may concern:

Clifton Springs, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covers for Milk-P ails, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings. i

My invention relates to im rovements in sanitary milk-pails in which t e cover of the pail is constructed with a view to keeping out or excluding impurities or extraneous matter liable to or that might pass into the pail during the process of milking.

This invention relates to the cover of the pail, and the to so form and construct the coverthat dirt or other foreign substances liable to fall from the udder or from the hair of the animal while being milked will be deflected from the pail,-

or if any be caught in the opening of the cover with the milk it will be quickly separated therefrom and held and so not allowed to gass into the pail.

ther objects and advantages of the invention will be brought out and made to a pear in the following descri tion, and tl ie novel construction particular y pointed out reference being had to the accompanying drawin which, with the reference characters marke thereon, forms part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a milk-pail showing my improved cover in place thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan of the cover detached, a part being broken away.. .Fig. 3 is a lan of the cover inverted with a part broken away. Fig. 4 is substantially a diametrical section of the cover on the dotted line in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the removable dirt pocket seen as indicated by arrow a in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view of the inner end of the funnel the section bein on the dotted line in Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is ane evation of parts at the outer end of the funnel, view as in Fig. 5, the dirt pocket being removed.

Referring to the parts shown, 1 is a milkpail of common kind and 2.1ny improved cover therefor both being commonly made of sheet metal. The cover 2 comprises a circular plate 3 of a diameter slightly less than that of the mouth of the pail, and formed at its edge with a down-turned flange 4 having a central outwardly-projecting horizontal ring main object of the invention is which, if

the pail, as clearly of the flange 4 bewithin the pail to 6 is a hollow conical body 5 to rest 11 on the edge of shown in ig. 1, the part low the ring telescoping form a close joint.

or funnel obliquely piercing and rigidv with the plate 3, near one side, projecting some distance above and below the plate, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, with its outer or large end open and uncovered for receiving the milk drawn from the udder.

The small or inner end of the funnel 6 is closed by a transverse sheet or plate 7, Figs. 4, 6 and 7, ierced with an opening 8 at the lower side of the funnel for the outflow of the milk. The plate 7 is larger in diameter than the adjacent end of the funnel and preferably dis osed eccentric eccentrically therewith,

its ower edge projecting below the wall of the funnel, the plate being formed with a flange 9, Figs. 3, 4 and 7, to receive removably a cylindrical cup or hollow body 11, Figs. 3, 4 and 5, for catching and holding any dirt or extraneous substances that may enter the funnel 6 and ass out through the opening 8 with the out owing milk.

The manner of joining the cup 11 to the flange 9 is immaterial to this invention, as any way that will cause the cup to remain securely in place when needed and be readily removable from the flange, will serve the purpose intended, but I sometimes corrugate the flange spirally, like a coarse screw-thread 10, and correspondingly corrugate the associated end-portion of the cu screw reniovably into said ange, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, its inner end being open and touching the plate 7. The outer end of the part 11 is closed save as to an opening 12 near its upper side or wall, covered by a fine wire gauze or netting 13, constituting a fine strainer for the milk finally passing from the funnel 6 into the pail 1. The dirt or other foreign substances entering the funnel 6, being heavier as to specific gravity than the milk, will settle in the lower corner or space 14 of the part 11, and not, ordinarily, rise to the high opening 12 of said part 11 any of it should seek to escape through said opening, being caught by the gauze 13 and kept from passing into the pail. The screw cup 11 being readily removable at any time may be emptied of the sediment contained and all the parts thus readily cleansed and put in order for further use.

so that it will What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A ai cover having a disk, and a funnel oblique y piercing the disk with its small end beneath, a perforated closure for said small end, and a chamber outside of the closure disposed obliquely to said disk.

2. A pail cover having a circular disk, and a funnel piercing the disk with small end beneath, a perforated closure for the funnel, and a chamber Without the closure, having an opening above the lower edge, and a sheet of gauze covering said opening.

3. A cover for a pail, having a disk and a funnel piercing the disk eccentrically and in an inclined direction with its small end beneath the disk, a perforated closure for the small end of the disk, and a perforated removable cup oined to the closure.

4. A cover for a pail, having a disk and a tapered funnel piercing the disk obliquely With its large end open and above the disk and its small end below the disk and closed by a flanged plate with an opening therein, and a cup joined to the flange of the plate by a threaded connection, the -up having an opening at the bottom covered with gauze.

5. A cover for a pail, having a disk and a tapered funnel piercing the disk obliquely with its large end open and above the disk and its small end below the disk and closed by a flanged plate with an opening therein, and a cup joined to the flange of the plate by a threaded connection, the cup having an opening through the bottom covered with gauze, the centers of the plate and the cup being in a vertical plane and one higher than the other.

6. A pail cover having a circular disk to openings in the 3 I close the pail, a funnel piercing the disk with its small end beneath, a perforated closure for said small end, and a cylindrical chamber without the inclosure, said chamber and the adjacent end of the tunnel being eccentric.

7. A cover for av pail, having a disk and a I l tapered tunnel piercing the disk, a circular l perforated closure for the small end ol the l funnel eccentric with the latter, a \'llll(l1l(:ll

dirt pocket held by the closure. said pocket being eccentric with the funnel, extending below the latter and the opening in the closure, with its axis l'orming an angle with the axis of the funnel.

8. A pail cover having a circular disk wit h peripheral tlangc having outlying ring to meet the mouth of the pail, a tunnel piercing the circular disk open at its upper large end and closed at its lower end with a nrl'orated plate, and a dirt pocket w thout the plate.

9. A cover for a milk pail, comprising a disk with an opening eccentrically disposed, I a tunnel piercing said opening obliquely to l the plane Ola Salli. disk, a plate at the lower end of said tunnel and having an eccentrically-disposed opening near its lower side, and l a removable cup disposed obliquely at the lower side of said funnel and having an open- I l l l l l l ing in its bottom near its upper side, whereb the lower portion ol said cup forms a dirt receptacle below the plane ot' the opening therein.

In witness whereot. l: have hereunto set my hand this 5th day ol October, 1907, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOHN H. BOS'lWVHli.

' Witnesses:

CHARLES G. TATERS,

HENRY J. Bosrwiek. 

